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From Lilith:
A Language of Appetite & the Jewish Woman Who First Heard It, by Bonnie Friedman July 29, 2024
"...At the time, Bruch was the world’s leading authority on the emotional aspects of anorexia. In The Girl in the Golden Cage, first published in 1978, she described families in which looking good was key. ...Underlying their guilt was a need to please or caretake the parents, which developed at the cost of the child becoming aware of her own desires.
...The crisis arrives when the daughter must grow into a state of greater independence—sometimes at the onset of puberty or when departing for college. Then she finds herself at a loss, and the strangely reassuring self deprivation begins.
Bruch wrote: “[A]norexics struggle against feeling enslaved, exploited, and not being permitted to lead a life of their own. They would rather starve than continue a life of accommodation...”
https://lilith.org/articles/a-language-of-appetite-the-jewish-woman-who-first-heard-it/
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A Language of Appetite & the Jewish Woman Who First Heard It, by Bonnie Friedman July 29, 2024
"...At the time, Bruch was the world’s leading authority on the emotional aspects of anorexia. In The Girl in the Golden Cage, first published in 1978, she described families in which looking good was key. ...Underlying their guilt was a need to please or caretake the parents, which developed at the cost of the child becoming aware of her own desires.
...The crisis arrives when the daughter must grow into a state of greater independence—sometimes at the onset of puberty or when departing for college. Then she finds herself at a loss, and the strangely reassuring self deprivation begins.
Bruch wrote: “[A]norexics struggle against feeling enslaved, exploited, and not being permitted to lead a life of their own. They would rather starve than continue a life of accommodation...”
https://lilith.org/articles/a-language-of-appetite-the-jewish-woman-who-first-heard-it/
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Bookstodon #JewishWomen #JewishHistory